chucker1
(ˈtʃʌkə(r))
[f. chuck v.2 + -er1.]
I. Of things.
1. A small pebble used in the game of check-stones or ‘chucks’. (Cf. checker.)
| 1760 Chron. in Ann. Reg. 82/1 An old labouring man..was laying on a bench fast asleep, some boys being at play with chuckers..one chuck'd one directly into his mouth. |
2. A blow with the fist.
| a 1805 Anstey Pindar. Ep. Ld. Buckhorse Poet. Wks. (1808) 155 While you with frequent fist assail'd him, With chuckers in the mazzard nail'd him. |
II. Of persons: One who chucks or throws.
3. esp. in chucker-out (vulgar colloq.), one who ‘chucks out’; applied to a. A bully employed to eject fleeced victims, or persons otherwise objectionable, from a gambling-hall, tavern, or brothel.
| 1884 Gd. Words June 400/1 He had done twelve months [in prison] for crippling for life the ‘chucker-out’ of one of these pubs. 1885 All Y. Round Nov. 2226 Dens to which Brickey is attached in the capacity of chucker-out. |
b. A fellow engaged to expel disturbers or opponents from a public meeting.
| 1884 Times Weekly Ed. 31 Oct. 14/1 Roughs, hired as ‘chuckers-out’ by the Tory party. 1887 Guardian 2 Mar. 343/1 Bogus meetings, where the chairman, committee, reporters, audience, and ‘chuckers-out’ were all subsidised. |
c. fig.
| 1880 Punch No. 2040. 63 (Hoppe) Lord Grey was about to resume his rôle of chucker-out to the proposed measures of his own party. |
4. Cricket. colloq. A bowler whose delivery of the ball is considered to be a throw, and hence illegal.
| 1882 Australians in England 158 Do not people tell you openly they think so and so a ‘chucker’? 1960 Times 3 Oct. 19/6 Meckiff said that even to think of changing his action would be to admit that those who regarded him as a ‘chucker’ were right. |